Zarmina Khalili says she never considered herself white until she moved to the United States 15 years ago.

Race was a nonissue in her native Afghanistan, she said. There, the basic distinctions were tribal, between Tajiks and Pashtuns. Khalili knew where she stood: She was a Tajik.

In America, it wasn't so clear. The census forms that came in the mail asked Khalili, 42, a homemaker in Canoga Park, Calif., to place herself in one of six racial categories. She picked "white." Although she is fair-skinned, it wasn't entirely a matter of color, she said.

She regarded white as synonymous with American, with belonging, with fitting in.

In identifying herself that way, Khalili joined a growing number of newcomers who are stretching traditional U.S. racial definitions and -- counterintuitive as it might seem -- making white among the most diverse of demographic categories.

A new face too an old enemy.
Here we have those who would eliminate the white race
using an old semantics trick, defining a term into non-existence.
By using ever broader classifications any term can be rendered meaningless. So, now asians, blacks (example - the recent 'black-white supremist!), etc. are simply 'white'.
In fact it seems any race can simply declare themselves 'white'.
These increasing level's of vagueness serve the ultimate purpose of eliminating the concept of a 'white race' entirely.
By redefining the 'white race' into infinite vagaries, racial identity and it meaning is eliminated entirely.

"I'm proud to be white, said the little white girl; me too, said the asian girl beside her, 'so am I' said the little black."

This is the source of the confusion as to what percentage of the world's population is white.

The "optimist" calculation may run 12% to 13% or more, but this would include all whom various anthropologists consider white--Turks, Arabs (both middle-east and north Africa), Iranians, Afghans, and a certain percentage of the "Aryans" of India.

We, however, are in the habit of considering only those of European or European-descended people as such. In that case, it would run about 9%--already less than Pat Buchanan's projected 10% 30 years hence.